infrastructure update: wiki location, etc.
Marco Hutter
jocl at jocl.org
Mon Oct 29 14:20:13 PDT 2012
Am 29.10.2012 19:39, schrieb John Rose:
> Since the JVM is a multi-language VM, there are much easier options
> for experimenting with language design than modifying Java. For
> example, I would be delighted to see a project for adjusting Clojure
> libraries to execute on GPUs.
(Forwared from a mail, since it might be of general interest: )
There is an increasing awareness and demand for GPU support also in the
'JVM alien languages'. A while ago, I've been talking with the lead
developer of the Groovy GPars (Parallel Systems) library about a support
of low-level (GPU) data-parallelism, and we agreed that this would be a
valuable feature that could fit nicely into the parallel collections
infrastructure. This has also lead to the RFE at
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GPARS-231
I also did some first experiments for translating Closures into OpenCL a
few months ago ( http://jocl.org/GroovyGPU/ ) but these only have been a
/very/ limited and naive proof of concept. The development has been
adjourned due the recent projects (Rootbeer and Sumatra), assuming that
the GPU support on JVM level will make such a specific approach redundant.
Although I probably do not (yet) know enough about the OpenJDK to become
a real contibutor, I'm looking forward to see how Sumatra evolves.
Best regards,
Marco Hutter
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